The Ford 351 Windsor is one of the most popular V8 engines Ford Motor Company has ever built. It belongs to the small block Ford family and was first introduced in 1969 with the Ford Mustang Mach 1.

If you've been following our Street Smart Windsor engine buildup in the last couple of issues, then you'll be happy to know that we finally have the Windsor in our late-model Mustang, we've flogged it ...

The 351 V8 engines are some of the best-known motors made by Ford, but even Ford fans might not know they came in three distinct types: Windsor, Cleveland, and Modified. The engines may be the same ...

As popular as the 5.0L pushrod engine is (we actually have to separate it from the new overhead-cam engine now), old school hot-rodders know that bigger cubes means bigger power. If a 302 is good, a ...

Ralph Hanson June 15, 2009 Comment Now! Ford’s Windsor 351 small-block V8 is far from dead despite its origins dating back to the early 1960s. Ford’s motorsports division, Ford Racing, has just ...

When muscle car enthusiasts talk about the mightiest engines produced by Ford during the 1960s and 1970s, the Boss 351 rarely gets mentioned. However, this underappreciated eight-cylinder gem, which ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a 1989 Ford Bronco with a 351 Windsor engine. The engine needs to be rebuilt. I have three choices: rebuild it myself, pay a mechanic to do the work, or buy a remanufactured ...

Laz Mesa (the boss at Mesa Balancing in Hialeah, Florida) and I have one thing in common-we both like big-inch motors. A few years ago, we did a successful project on a stroker 351 Windsor, and since ...

Plucking an engine from a junkyard derelict and tuning it to make absurd power is one of America’s favorite pastimes, at least when you look back on the hot-rodders of yesteryear. There are still ...

Big-inch small-blocks are all the rage these days. With the mass proliferation of tall-deck aftermarket blocks and dirt cheap stroker cranks, the grunt and cubes that were once the exclusive territory ...

Ford took a unique approach with its 351 cubic-inch V8 by offering different versions under names like Windsor, Cleveland, and Modified. Although the Modified name is inferred from the 351M and open ...